The Idiot (1951)

(Hakuchi)

Country: JAP
Technical: bw 166m
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Cast: Setsuko Hara, Masayuki Mori, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga, Eijirô Yanagi, Minoru Chiaki, Chieko Higashiyama

Synopsis:

A former soldier who has spent some time in an asylum goes to live on an island, where he disturbs the equilibrium encompassing a young woman and her admirer.

Review:

Kurosawa's Dostoevsky adaptation is powerfully delivered but killingly long.